Arnhold Institute for Global Health

We seek to improve the health of people and the communities they live in, both at home and abroad, resulting in lasting global health impact at scale. To achieve this mission, the Arnhold Institute designs, accelerates, and replicates health care models that put people first and drive meaningful impacts on health and wellbeing. By combining innovative thinking with intellectual rigor and data science, the Institute is making maximum use of both human and technological resources. Our work focuses on giving equal weight to the demands of the present and the predicted needs of the future. The goal of the Institute’s work is to create successful models that transform global health by bridging equity gaps.

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Their central infrastructure isn't bank branches, but rather networked group meetings. And the return on investment from their loans isn't the interest; it's the added value of organizing vulnerable populations in rural areas of low-income countries into a platform. MFIs aren't banks that happen to lend to groups; they are a delivery platform reaching 200 million households globally that happens to distribute loans.

Microfinance institutions are popularly known for providing small loans to low-income entrepreneurs lacking access to traditional banking services. However, new research from The Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, suggests that the capabilities of microfinance networks expand well beyond banking, and that tapping into these networks can bring measurable health improvements to rural and underserved communities on a national scale with reduced cost.

Clinicians and health system leaders started tuning out the patient's voice, turning instead to electronic health records and the latest protocols to manage their most complicated and high-need patients. Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD, director of The Arnhold Institute for Global Health and chair in the health system design and global health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Niyum Gandhi, executive vice president and chief population health officer at the Mount Sinai Health System, believe it's time for an urgent and strategic reset.

In Africa and India, the idea of using lay health care workers was born of necessity. Manmeet Kaur, founder of City Health Works in Harlem realized that using community health care workers would also fill a real gap in American health care, where all too often patients with chronic conditions like heart failure and diabetes are released from the hospital with little follow-up and few options when problems arise except go right back to the ER.

Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could account for up to a quarter of deaths. Bangladesh and Somalia were the worst affected. Air pollution had the biggest impact, accounting for two-thirds of deaths from pollution.

One of the reasons New York’s data community stands out from the rest is that it is the best at recognizing the need for both natural sciences and social sciences to come together to do truly great and innovative data work. New York’s data scientists have not only helped to build many innovative and successful businesses, but the Data for Good movement started here too.

The Mount Sinai Health System and Teva Pharmaceuticals are teaming up to improve patient and health system care for people with multiple chronic conditions, the partners announced Monday at the World Economic Forum's Sustainable Development Impact Summit. A regional pilot program at Mount Sinai's Arnhold Institute for Global Health will design and evaluate a patient-centered, integrated approach and eventually adapt it for delivery to larger patient populations.

Teva announced a partnership with Mount Sinai Health System hospital to create solutions to improve patient and health system care for Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC), defined as “an emerging and unaddressed global health threat.” The announcement was made to an audience of public health leaders at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Sustainable Development Impact Summit.

There may be subgroups of patients with type 2 diabetes who experience marked health improvements in response to intensive weight-loss interventions, while others may experience substantially worse outcomes, the results of a reanalysis of data from a randomized controlled trial indicate.

In East Harlem, residents die on average 10 years earlier than those just blocks south. Many of my patients worry more about the rent than medication for their diabetes or high blood pressure. Therefore, the most important question I ask my patients during an exam is, "Where do you live?"

Community health workers (CHWs) can fill many of the gaps that separate clinical advice from the realities of daily life. While CHWs have been present in the United States since the 1960s, they have struggled to become a core feature of our health care system, though that is beginning to change.